My subtle little point is that folks are getting their panties in a wad over a trivial issue. Is this issue the primary threat to the quality of public education, or the proper training of young minds? I think not. In fact, if young minds were properly trained, they would be well able to parse the merits of this tiresome and empty controversy, which is as much about a war over capturing semantical terms, as anything else.
We seem to have a good deal of trouble properly teaching them to read, nevermind how to think in a properly critical manner. I understand your point, but as a practical matter, we can at least, for the time being, insure that the factual matter provided to them is as correct as we currently know it to be. Deferring resolution until the day they all have properly trained minds seems to me to be the sort of thing Voltaire was referring to when he noted that "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien".